/urs/bin/X: undefined symbol: pixman_disable_out_of_bounds_workaround

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:15:35 +0200, tommaso di bucchianico wrote:

> Hallo List,
> 
> since november 2009 I can not use ubuntu and debian testing (stable
> [lenny] is ok)  on my Laptop DELL Inspiron 1520 because of problems
> related to xorg and pixman.
> Actually my xserver does not start on ubuntu 10.04 because of
> 
> "/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /urs/binX: undefined symbol:
> pixman_disable_out_of_bounds_workaround"
> 
> but in the past I got also other error messages, i.e.:
> 
> "/usr/bin/X symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/X: undefined symbol:
> pixman_tramsform_init_identity"
> 
Sounds like you have an obsolete local install of pixman.  Make sure
'ldd /usr/bin/Xorg' finds the libpixman.so.1 in /usr/lib, not
/usr/local/lib or anything else.

Cheers,
Julien